juvenile
Example Sentences
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A juvenile court in the Paris suburb of Creteil late Wednesday said it had sentenced two of the men, who were 15 years old at the time, to 10 years in jail.
From Barron's
Prior to that, she led writing groups in juvenile halls across the Bay Area and freelanced in Cairo during the Egyptian revolution and Arab Spring.
Instead, the models pointed to other factors as far more influential, particularly breeding success and the survival of juvenile penguins.
From Science Daily
It’s a shade of slapstick in a movie constructed around juvenile pratfalls and targeted destruction that allows O’Hara’s mom to retain her dignity.
From Salon
He called the exchange “juvenile” and “not a reference to anything dark or harmful.”
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